In early November 2024, shortly after Trump’s successful presidential election, news spread: a page dedicated to him on a website where activists maintain a list of enemies of Ukraine had been deleted. We have verified the accuracy of this information.
As reported, Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the US presidential election forced the administration of the Ukrainian portal “Peacemaker” to remove the profile of the American politician from the database of persons declared enemies of Ukraine. Previously, the politician was allegedly brought there for statements about the status of Crimea.
They wrote about this “RIA Novosti", official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, Russian journalist Alexey Venediktov, People's Deputy of Ukraine Maryana Bezuglaya, former freelance adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich and many large Telegram channels, in particular “Live broadcast"(671,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Anatoly Shariy" (583,000) "Resident» (297,000), KB (230,000) and "Evil proof"(191,000).
Website "Peacemaker» has been operating since spring 2014. He received fame due to publications with personal information of people who, according to activists’ data or assessment, are involved in supporting the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, visited annexed Crimea, or simply made hostile statements towards Ukraine. The resource has been criticized more than once UN, representatives of the European Union and the OSCE due to a possible threat to the safety of individuals whose personal data was posted there. President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky stated, which does not have the leverage to close the site.
Reports that Trump was included in the Peacemaker database appeared in the summer of 2018. According to unconfirmed sources, shortly before this, the US President in an informal conversation with other G7 leaders statedthat Crimea is Russian because its inhabitants speak Russian. Officially, the White House declined to comment on this information. In the State Duma then predictedthat Trump will end up in the notorious database, and in a few days about it reported Russian-language resources and published the corresponding screenshot.
As of November 8, 2024, there is indeed no page about Trump on the Peacemaker website. It could remain in the project database Internet Archive, where “Verified” tried to find it. The standard form for ending the address of personal pages on Myrotvorets is the surname written in Latin, followed by the first name with a hyphen. For example, if you need a record in the database about a certain Ivan Petrov, you can try entering the address in the Internet Archive search https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/petrov-ivan, and the corresponding person will be found. However, this method does not work with Trump (both with his short name and with his full name), that is, the archive either did not record such a page during its entire existence, or it never existed.
The screenshot itself also raises questions. Firstly, in the title of the card, the surname of the person included in the database is first written, then his name - for example, this is how the page about the publicist is designed Tucker Carlsonsympathizing with Trump. In the case of the purported record of the elected President of the United States, this rule is not followed.
Secondly, Trump’s photograph along the contour instead of a blue frame is equipped with a shadow effect, which is what other famous “Verified” cases was not done.
Finally, the news from six years ago that Trump was included in the “Peacemaker” database was not rebroadcast by any authoritative Ukrainian media, and the same screenshot was distributed on social networks and pro-Russian resources, and it was never accompanied by a link to the corresponding entry on the project’s website. But, according to messages Ukrainian media, “Peacemaker” himself denied the existence of a page dedicated to Trump, commenting on the news as follows: “This fake attack is being done with the aim of misleading Western diplomats.” In the summer of 2018, even the pro-Kremlin publication Tsargrad refuted the existence of an entry about Trump in the “Peacemaker”, providing the publication with a corresponding screenshot.
Thus, the sources available today indicate that the page dedicated to Trump never existed on the “Peacemaker” website, and therefore, it could not be deleted in the fall of 2024. This was confirmed by representatives of the Ukrainian project - in response to the publication of Ukrainian deputy Maryana Bezugla about the removal reacted Director of “Peacemaker” Roman Zaitsev. On his Facebook, he characterized the act of the people’s chosen one as a deliberate dissemination of fake Russian propaganda in the information field of Ukraine. On the same day, on the main page of “Peacemaker” appeared selection, allegedly, fake screenshots of celebrities allegedly included in the database over different years. There was also a screenshot of Trump.
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